FAQ
That’s a measure of the presence of dirt, minerals, resins, oxidized fatty acids, alkaline soaps of palmitic and stearic acids, and proteins that are suspended in the oil.n nnnIt is determined by dissolving some oil in petroleum ether and filtering out the impurities and is expressed as a percentage (%) of the total.
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